Some bits and pieces from here and there:
- The Household Tax resistance movement in Ireland has adopted a new tactic. Two Cork city council members, among others, were arrested for demonstrating inside a Bank of Ireland branch. The bank was targeted in part to protest that the government has been using tax money to bail out banks while raising taxes and imposing austerity budgets on citizens.
- Enric Durán had another plan to strike back at the banks: he visited 39 banks, and took out 68 loans for a total of €492,000, which he donated “to various social movements that are building alternatives to capitalism.” Then he went underground and left the banks holding the (empty) bag. Waging Nonviolence recently interviewed Enric Durán in hiding, and published an article about his actions. Apparently he’s at the core of the group that is promoting “Desobediència Integral” (Comprehensive Disobedience) that I mentioned .
- The Washington Post published a nice long-form piece about the Transform Now Plowshares activists who boldly broke into and vandalized the Y-12 (Oak Ridge) nuclear weapons facility .
- Bill Buppert, at Zero Gov, has written a nice profile of incorrigible moonshiner Popcorn Sutton.
